Date   : Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:22:03 +1100
From   : msmcdoug@... (Mark McDougall)
Subject: BBC FPGA Boots to BASIC... almost...

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> This just pokes the characters into the MODE 7 screen. You could
> stick it at &C000 over the font, change &FFEE to JMP &C000. It
> would show if the VDU code is causing the problem. You'd get
> something like the following:
>  
> **BBC Computer 32K****BASIC****>hello***
> *Mistake**>PRINT fred****No such variabl
> e**>P."Hello"**Hello**>

Well, I now have a functional, if not somewhat crude, MODE 7 implementation.

Errors in this mode, as expected, freeze the machine.

Next step is to patch the ROM as you suggested...

Regards,

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